Air Bud, a movie about a golden retriever that plays basketball, metastasized into a 14 film series featuring more animals playing more sports. Those movies have collectively brought in WELL over a quarter of a billion dollars.
I cannot stop thinking about this.
Imagine the pitch:
“Okay, so there’s this DOG and it plays BASKETBALL!”
“OBVIOUSLY!”
“And we can make hundreds of millions of dollars with this idea!”
“OBVIOUSLY!”
“And this is for children. AMERICAN children.”
“OBVIOUSLY!”
We can do that again—recapture the magic of that original brilliance.
RIGHT? SURE! Let’s just pick one of these and let’s turn on that money printer.
Do it for the AMERICAN children!
Once Upon a Hamster - Season 4, Episode 3: GP builds a unicycle out of a discarded bicycle wheel that Hammy finds in the woods...
https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/the-big-wheel/umc.cmc.6xydkqgwa3xlikdoashti69vy?showId=umc.cmc.4fvksyt7j0bmgrfvrpfukqnnr
I saw “very large squirrels.”
In my head, that quickly transformed into the Rodents Of Unusual Size from Princess bride. Rapid left turn into a bloody, rodent-driven horror show for middle schoolers.
Probably should be done by Aardman. Disney has kinda brutalized the photo-realism thing.